Moorings
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They were so desperate to try to, kind of, float the boats into the remaining pools of water, but they finally had to give up because the piers and the
moorings
simply couldn't keep up with the retreating shoreline.
More example sentences with word moorings
If the EU aids in building a parallel structure that contradicts its core values, particularly the centrality of individual rights, it risks severing its meta-political
moorings
– the beliefs to which its worldview is tethered.
Just then Commander Farragut was giving orders to cast off the last
moorings
holding the Abraham Lincoln to its Brooklyn pier.
The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the
moorings
were cast off and we pulled clear.
Years later, to the crash of battle-music, Saxon kings and Saxon revelry were buried side by side, and Kingston's greatness passed away for a time, to rise once more when Hampton Court became the palace of the Tudors and the Stuarts, and the royal barges strained at their
moorings
on the river's bank, and bright-cloaked gallants swaggered down the water-steps to cry: "What Ferry, ho!Gadzooks, gramercy."
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